Here are some more talks that discuss the state-of-the-art. There is some overlap in the material, but each talk is coming from a different angle, and was for a different audience.
- Speech Synthesis: Where did the signal processing go?
- Speaking naturally? It depends who is listening…
- Does ‘end-to-end’ speech synthesis make any sense?
You now need to explore the literature for yourself, to find out what the current state of the art is. But you are strongly recommended to develop a good understanding of the approach covered in the course up to and including module 8 first, so that your understanding has a solid foundation.
Here are the key places to start looking for good papers:
Conferences
- Interspeech (the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association)
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW)
- Blizzard Challenge workshops